New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday unveiled the world's cheapest tablet computer. The cost, just Rs 2250. Or about $ 149.

Sibal said, "There are milestones in life when we feel we have really achieved something great. This is one of those milestones."

These tablets will be subsidised by the government and given to Indian university students at just over Rs 1000. It's a five year old project that over the years has drawn scorn from international experts.

Additional Secretary HRD Ministry NK Sinha said, "They called us lunatics. They called it impossible. And I had to take the flak."

The new tablet is a touch screen machine. It has 256 MB RAM and 2 GB of internal storage. External drives add another 32 GB of storage space.

The tablet accepts two pen drives and offers about

praying it enters naija soon.in the next 5 years no child will want an ipad 2,it will probably be called old skool stuff.